Jack smiled as he peered into the cages in the pet store, watching the puppies jumping all over each other trying to get his attention. He bent down to pet a German Shepard puppy and then he heard a voice from his past behind him. "Hello Jack. Long time no see." Jack straightened and turned around "Hello Sarah." Then he noticed the little boy standing next to her. "Hi." Jack said with a puzzled look on his face. The little boy smiled at him "I'm Andrew." "Well Andrew, I'm Jack." Andrew looked up at Sarah "Mommy, can I look at the puppies now." "Sure sweetie." Sara said watching Jack's face to check his reaction. She watched a flicker of pain on his face before he quickly hid it behind the O'Neill mask.
"How have you been Jack?" "Alright. I'm a General now." "Wow. I just can't picture you riding a desk." "Well. I'm just to beat up to keep going with the kids." "Seeing anyone?" "Yeah, she's great. We're living together and we're going to have a baby in a month or so." "Really. Do you know what your having?" "A girl. Her name's gonna be Grace Elizabeth O'Neill." At that moment two men came walking up "There you are honey. Where's Andrew?" Sarah smiled at the younger man "He's looking at the puppies." The man frowned "Why get his hopes up." Then they noticed Jack and the older man grinned "Hello Jack." "Hello Paul." The younger man stuck out his hand "Albert Donalson." Jack shook his hand "Gen. Jack O'Neill."
At that moment they heard a young woman's voice "Told ya we'd find him here Sam." Cassie hugged Jack and then went to look at the animals. Sam walked up, and gave Jack a kiss. "I think when the workers know you by name it's a bad sign Jack." Jack just grinned and shrugged "Well, I'll stop pestering them when we can get a dog." Sam looked over at the others "Hello Sarah." "Hello Sam. So, Jack says your having a girl." Sam shook her head "We don't actually know but Jack says since the baby's not bouncing all over the womb it's like me and has to be a girl." Paul laughed "Well I believe everyone who has ever met Jack agrees with him on hoping it's like you." Jack made a face but laughed like the others, except Albert who didn't seem to like him. Andrew came out of the store and smiled at Sam "Hi, I'm Andrew." Sam grined at him "Hi Andrew, I'm Sam." Cassie came back out "Sam, there's this really cute puppy." Jack smiled triumphantly "See. Even Cass thinks we should get a dog." "Cassie wouldn't be cleaning up after the dog." Jack shrugged and Andrew giggled.